Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.